Your Week in Pop Culture: The 'Merica Edition

This is the weekend where guys can bust out the American flag Chubbies shorts and girls can don their Ole Glory swimwear and go chill at some body of water with American flag beer cans, hot dogs and fireworks.

All those festivities need is a little music, and there is a Spotify playlist for that. Paul Lamere, the director of developer platform The Echo Nest, compiled the songs that Americans love blasting from backyards and boats on our nation's birthday. Lamere compiled the statistics using location tagged data.

According to the list, 46 out of the 50 states that make up our purple mountains majesty prefer Party in the U.S.A. by Miley Cyrus, so there is still some work to do.

Here is the playlist, courtesy of Spotify. For mobile users, click the link here.

The most patriotic place (according to the list) on July 4 is, as it should be, Washington, DC, because they have to represent the country in a good light at some point, right?

TV: ‘Drunk History’ makes history so much more interesting with booze

The old saying goes, “those who don’t learn their history are doomed to repeat it.” What if you’re learning that history when the storyteller is drunk?

Then you are laughing, which is exactly what the folks at Funny or Die and creator Derek Waters wanted when they began their star-studded re-tellings called Drunk History in a web series six years ago.

The second season of the series began Tuesday night on Comedy Central, and most of the videos are on YouTube. You can live by the tagline, “Witness history as it's never been told before: Drunk.”

A little something from YouTube: Americans love to do impressions … of other Americans

Where can you find a YouTube video where one guy impersonates Billie Holiday, Kermit the Frog, Ray Romano, Flipper and Britney Spears in the same place?

Right here in this video from singer/songwriter Rob Cantor and his piano playing buddy Andrew. Cantor impersonates 29 different celebrities with sterling accuracy while singing his song Perfect from his latest album Not a Trampoline.

He even does a pretty sweet impersonation of an in-tune trumpet. Not kidding – check it out.

Live from the internet: ‘Columbusing’ is what we can blame for Miley Cyrus twerking

The discovery of America is always credited to Christopher Columbus, even though he got lost and someone had already discovered it (Erik the Red, Amerigo Vespucci – hello – it’s in the name!).

Thanks to that historical gem in American history, College Humor honors Columbus with the latest internet hashtag/trend called “Columbusing,” where white people claim discovering things that have been long established.

How to use it in a sentence? Example: “Buzzfeed Columbused an entire day’s worth of articles from Reddit.”

A good example would be Cyrus twerking when it was already a part of dance culture, or hummus, like the video describes. Check out the video here. And here are some other definitions on how to “Columbus” things from Urban Dictionary.

There are three things that drive Americans to the movies: explosions, robots and more explosions.

All three of those things are what make director Michael Bay a rich man, and the opening weekend of the fourth Transformers movie did just that, raking in more than $100 million.

Here are last weekend's Top 5, according to Box Office Mojo (listed next to previous week's ranking and weekend gross):

Transformers: Age of Extinction (NR) $100,038,390

22 Jump Street (2) $15,842,375

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (3) $13,237,697

Think Like a Man Too (1) $10,316,397

Maleficent (5) $8,376,674

In theaters: July 2-4

Tammy – In a remake from 20 years ago, a down-on-her-luck woman takes a road trip with her hard drinking, but fun grandmother. The Melissa McCarthy-led cast could make a strong push to No. 1 over the long holiday weekend, but expect Transformers to remain on top. The movie also stars Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates, Allison Janney, Dan Aykroyd, Gary Cole and Toni Collette. Check out the trailer here.

Deliver Us From Evil(Scary movie alert) – NYPD officer Ralph Sarchie (Eric Bana) is on the beat of several inexplicable crimes that have a haunting experience on him and the victims, making him join forces with a priest who is an exorcism expert. Now the cop and his new partner have to stop the haunting of New York City before it gets out of hand. The film also stars Olivia Munn, Edgar Ramirez, Joel McHale and Chris McCoy. Check out the trailer here.

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